[imc-wmass-announce] Western Mass Indymedia Skills Workshop to be held in Northampton

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Western Mass Indymedia Skills Workshop to be held in Northampton


On Saturday, May 6, at 2:00 to 3:30pm the Western Mass. Indymedia Center 
will be holding a media skills workshop at the Media Education Foundation, 
60 Masonic Street, Northampton, Massachusetts. The workshop is both an 
introductory session on utilizing the Indymedia site for your group or 
individual projects, and a media skills information exchange. Indymedia 
activists will be on hand to explain how the site works, what it can do for 
you and your group, and to familiarize you with Indymedia’s mission. There 
will also be a media skills session on reporting and self-editing.

Indymedia is a young, dynamic, democratic, voluntary interactive news group 
with websites around the world. The Western Mass IMC 
(http://www.wmass.indymedia.org) is an excellent resource for both delving 
into the issues of the day and promoting your events and activity. The IMC 
advances social, economic, and environmental justice by providing a local 
forum for people to publish writing, photos, audio, video, and art 
traditionally marginalized by corporate media. They are guided by the 
Principles of Unity set forth by the Global IMC and by a sense of social 
responsibility. The Wmass IMC has the following goals:

* Report grassroots events, issues and culture from a people's perspective 
in a truthful accurate manner.

* Provide media production resources to members of the Western Mass. 
community who are disenfranchised from corporate media.

* Educate and inform the public about local and global news via the 
wmass.indymedia.org website.

* Form alliances with other local media outlets who also seek to break the 
information bottleneck of corporate media.

The Western Mass Indymedia Skills Workshop will show you how we put these 
goals to work.
Log-on to: http://www.wmass.indymedia.org and check out the site. Like we 
say at Indymedia, don't suffer from the media, BE THE MEDIA!

For more information on the Indymedia Skills Workshop email: 
imc-wmass-discuss at lists.indymedia.org

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